• miversen33@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      A pointer is nothing but an integer that “points to” a memory location.

      They can feel intimidating because it’s really easy to footgun with them, but they are not as complicated as they appear :)

      • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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        1 year ago

        The pointer syntax being slightly different than the pointer declaration syntax always confuses me to no end. I conceptually under pointers perfectly but their syntax is wack.